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I know you're worried about being put on SSP but if you can't do normal day to day activities without ending up short of breath and almost fainting you shouldn't be working, even from home. Your employer should realise that it makes more sense to have you back feeling better even if it takes a short term hit of more sick leave.
I went back after a week off and it was too soon, I lasted two and a half days, got fuck all done and ended up having nearly another week off. But my boss did the responsible thing and told me not to come back until I was actually better.
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Day 18 for me now, still feel not great. I thought I was better but yesterday I had to run around after my boy, take a dirty nappy down to the communal bins (3 flights of stairs), and then do his bath and pyjamas/bedtime which can be pretty strenuous, all one after another and I suddenly realised I was so short of breath and light headed I almost fainted. I had to just lie down in the hallway immediately and it took about 20 minutes for me to feel OK enough to stand up again.
It's my first day back working from home today but if I'm honest I don't feel well enough to, but I'm having really bad anxiety about being put on SSP so if I don't work I'm just basically frozen with worry about money.